Improvement in urinals



PATBNTED DEC. 6, 1864.

s. CARR, URINAL.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM s. case, or NEW YORK, N. v.

IMPROVEMENT IN URINALS.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM S. CARR, of the city and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Urinals; and I do hereby declare the iollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein-- t Figure 1 is a vertical section of my improved urinal, and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan at the line a a. I

Similar marks of reference denote the same pirts.

Urinals have heretofore been fitted up in closets and beneath washbasins so as to swing around when turned from beneath such basin or closet.

My invention relates to an improvement in i l or basins whereby the act of swingingthe said urinal around shall cause the water to flow while the basin is in use, or shut (it such water when the basin is pressed back out of the way after use, and I provide means for preventing the escape of smell from the pipe running away to the sewer or cess pool, and a so for catching and passing into such waste-pipe any leakage that there maybe at thejoTnts that move as the basin swings.

In the drawings, his ametallic plate, screwed or otherwise secured to the wall, closet, or supports for the urinal.

c is a ground-coupling at the upper end of the'waste-pipc (1, receiving the lower part of the metal trap and basin-holder e, and at which point the basin swings. This trap e is usually to be made of cast-iron, and may be enameled in the inside to prevent rust.

f is the basin or urinal. formed in any desired shape and provided with a hollow rim, g, t trough which water is allowed to pass, (as hereinafter shown,) and escapes through holes 1 1 into the basin, for washing out said basin and keeping it clean. The lower part of the basin f is extended downward in a pipeshape, as at i, a sufticient distance to pass into water that remains in a receptacle or trap at the outer or swinging end of 6. By this construction smell is prevented from coming out of the trap, and the ordinary bent or S-shaped trap-pipes arc dispensed with. This con struct-ion of trap formed by the portioni entering the water might be employed with the basins of hopper waterelosets as well' as in urinals. The basin f is to b'e'cemented tightly to the trap, nearthe up and a cover, In, is provit ed for that portion of the trap that extends oti' from the side of the basin, The edge of this cover it is formed with a rib, so that any water thatmay leak.

frointhe pipes and couplings that are above said cover It will be caught and passed into the trap through the pipe I, that is bent so as to retain sufficient water in said pipe to act as a trap to exclude smell.

1 m is a hollow plug attached on k and having apipe, to, eatending to the sockets and hollow rim of the basin f, and this plugm passes into a hollow stationary socket-,0, attached to b and formed with a coupling screw receiving the pipe p,conuecting with the supply of water. At one side of the socket o is a small cylinder, q, with a screw-cover, r, fitted water-tight, and this cylinder contains, loosely, a valve, 8, that is pressed to its seat by the spring t and has a projecting end extending toward the upper end of the plug m, at which point said plug m is formed as a cam or eccentric.

The operation is as follows: When the basin e is In the usual position, the valve .9 is closed, and water cannot pass from the pipe p tothe basin but when the basin is swung out for use, the plug or, turning in o by its cam-shaped end, presses back the valve and allows the water to run into the basin, and on the reverse movement the water is again shut oil by the valve s closing upon its seat.

A ring may be provided at v to be used in moving the basin.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to :ecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a basin or watercloset hopper, of the pipe 1', extending below zthe surface of wa-terin a receptacle below said basin or hopper, as and for the purposes specified.

2. The valve .9, actuated by the cam-shaped end of the plug m, that is moved by swinging the urinal or basin, as set forth.

3. The cover It, with raised edges, in combination with the pipe I, for the purposes and as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my' signature this 17th day of October, 1864.

WILLIAM S, CARR. Witnesses:

1 LEMUEL W. SERRELL,

CHAS. Ii. SMITH.

or edge of said trap, 

